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Since Wrestle Universe added more promotions, I have started watching Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling, Marigold Pro Wrestling, a bit of REAL ZERO1 (took me a while to realize they are only stable-specific shows) and a bit of DDT too. So many promotions that keeping track of what I want to watch next and what I have already watched has become a task of its own. I've been keeping a double list to keep everything organized, so why not share it here? You should expect to see all these promotions + NOAH and TJPW in the following lists. (maybe some bonus stuff too?) I should probably also check out Michinoku Pro at some point, but I'm afraid it will just be junior action and I don't like high flyers.

This page consists of two parts! First is the "Watch Later" list, where shows I want to watch next are located. This should change often (will depend on how lazy I am). I provide some context for each one and why I want to watch them. Second section is the "Rewatch" list, where shows I think are worth revisiting are found. They also have a description of what they contain and what I liked about them.

Watch Later

AJW Dream Slam 2/4/1993
They say this is the best joshi card of all time... Take a look! Available on Big Jule's youtube channel. ~5h30m, maybe skip some of the kickboxing bouts. This is a big can of worms I'm about to open, maybe leave it for sometime later?
GLEAT LIDET UWF Ver. 4 17/4/2024
Modern shoot-style to get my shoot-style fix! Yu Iizuka is in this! Iizuka vs. Masakatsu Funaki, Takanori Ito vs. Hikaru Sato. "Shrek" makes an apperance in a tag match! ~2h 45m
TJPW Aquarium Pro-Wrestling In Yokohama 10/12/2023
Former Wrestle Universe PPV now made free VOD. Light-hearted aquarium street wrestling! ~1h if you exclude the museum tour.
The Leave Presents LIMIT BREAK.3 19/6/2024
Go Shiozaki 20th anniversary! Shiozaki Akiyama v Marufuji Sugiura! Roll back the clock! Akitoshi Saito vs. Chris Vice World Heavy rematch! What's this.... Higuchi vs. Fujita????? OMAGAAAAA! A bit less than 3h.
NOAH Wrestle Magic 4/5/2024
I didn't get to watch it when it was first streamed. Sasak & Sakuraba vs. Sato & Taniguchi shoot-style match! Marigold 6-woman! Oiwa tags with Inaba! EHDDWJr vs. Kiyomiya GHC Heavy main! Probs ~5h

Rewatch

Legend:

• !!! Notable match
• ??? I should have payed more attention
• ?!?/!?! Notable match and I should have payed more attention

!!! NOAH Limit Break Vol.1 15/2/2024 !!!
Big meaty veterans slapping big meat and kicking the shit out of each other. Fiery Kotoge takes defiant KENTA role in the main and kicks ass. Only 2 hours 25 minutes.
Sendai Girls Pro-Wrestling 2024 in Shinkiba 1st RING - "I'll never forget that" 17/3/2024
First Sendai Girls event on Wrestle Universe! Very stiff in ring work! Reminiscent of the stiffest of old school AJW matches. Great logo! Less than 2 hours, 4 out of 5 matches are very good.
TJPW Grand Princess '24 31/3/2024
Itoh vs. Suzuki was at times fun and at times traumatizing. Arai vs. Kamifuku was ok. Tag title semi-main Daisy Monkey vs. YukiNiki was very dramatic. Main event was cool and fun. This show ushers in the next gen of TJPW stars.
NOAH Star Navigation 2024 31/3/2024
Most of this card is meh, EHDDW Jr. vs. Jake Lee main event is pretty good! Lots of drama and storytelling.
?!? NOAH Star Navigation 11/4/2024 ?!?
HAYATA vs. Morris is much better than I expected. TOKYO SCRAMBLE 8-man vets vs. current gen special is amazing. Special shoutout to Shiozaki's lariat on Oiwa, it's a thing of beauty, really. Main event is full of fury and anger and intensity between Kenoh and Kiyomiya, although I would like to rewatch this. Kiyomiya trying to prove he is no longer an up-and-comer and a naive youngster but established and worthy of respect from Kenoh + trying to undo all the humiliation from Kenoh in the buildup. Rest of the matches are ok but nothing too special. A bit less than 3 hours.


The 8-man from this event is where I snatched this beautiful gif from!

ZERO1 Yasukuni Shrine 31/3/2024
First three matches are simple to follow and quite enjoyable, especially the Junya Matsunaga and Takumi Baba ones. NOAH vs. ZERO1 tag is also fast and fun. Saito vs. Vice main event is ok, although the crowd was super into it, maybe I didn't get it? Re-visit for some solid REAL ZERO1 action.
King Of DDT 20th anniversary 1st Round 5/6/2024
Higuchi match is a big hoss-fest with drama. It's ok.
TJPW YES! Wonderland '24 6/5/2024
Tag title match was good, but Uehara & Himawari still got a long way to go. PuriPuri main has some great technical wrestling at the beginning, quite good storytelling match, but Watanabe still needs to work harder, she barely won. Toga is great in the opener. HIMAWARI looking very sexy in the Tag title pre-match promos and a good main event.
Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling Shinkiba 1stRING Tournament 10/5/2024
Only last three matches are worth it. Tag team main event is very good, very much worth a rewatch.
!!! King Of DDT 20th anniversary 2nd Round 5/6/2024 !!!
Small show, skipped everything and went straight to Higuchi vs. Ishikawa. Amazing match, 10/10 MUST REWATCH for some great hard-hitting action. Big meaty men slapping meat at its best! Main event is good, MAO is awesome, I don't yet care about To-y.
!!! NOAH Sunny Voyage 18/5/2024 !!!
Go Shiozaki vs. Ryohei Oiwa main event: Very good battle of attrition between two big heavyweights, awesome match. Oiwa shows the progress he made during his months in NOAH. Very worth rewatching.
!!! Marigold Fields Forever 20/5/2024 !!!
Good two openers, amazing main event, the rest are skippable! Check it out. ~3 hours
1. Nanae vs. Victoria Yuzuki is a super heated opener, good match with lots of drama.
2. Miku Aono vs. Nao Ishikawa is the best of the three first matches, very impactful. Not many power moves, but there are cool moves here.
3. !!! Utami Hayashishita & Giulia vs. Sareee & Bozilla !!! : Amazing main event, it's insane how high impact this was. Rewatch ASAP!!! Giulia takes insane punishment from Sareee, big bruiser Bozilla is a modern age female Stan Hansen.
NOAH Star Navigation 21/5/2024
Glorified tour show. Everything was boring apart from the main event which was ok. Oiwa being cool and rejecting everyone was the best part of this show.
!!! NOAH Star Navigation Night 2 22/5/2024 !!!
1. Sasaki vs. Sato: Cool technical match, with a hint of shoot-style. It was enjoyable but I won't be missing it anytime soon.
2. !!! Masa Kitamiya vs. Tomohiro Ishii !!!: Very hard-hitting action, super stiff, big meaty men slapping meat action just how I liked it. It's not perfect but it's pretty good.
3. Jake Lee & Tadasuke vs. Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi: Some good stiff lariats and hard action between Tadasuke and Takagi towards the end but not the best. It's an ok match though.
4. !!! Kenoh vs. Minoru Suzuki !!! : Sadist Suzuki is really scary in his role, raw visceral bloody action, Kenoh perserveres through fighting spirit (not defiance?) and there's a lot of strikes exchanged. Suzuki's forearm strikes are sick. Didn't climax as I had hoped but it's still pretty good. 3 PFSs on Suzuki! Kenoh makes a promise in-ring to leave the Suzuki-gun days behind.

Much better than the first day, more hunger in matches, more excited crowd. Worth watching. Rewatching? We'll see.

!!! SENDAI Girls Pro Wrestling Azalea Taisho Hall 18/5/24 !!!
Mio Momono & Yurika Oka vs. Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu is a great main event, best SENDAI Girls match I've seen so far. Hard-hitters Hashimoto and Yuu vs. scrappy and energetic Oka and Momono.
King Of DDT ~20th Anniversary~ 26/5/2024
Kazusada vs. MAO was awesome. Brookes vs. Sasaki was whatevs. MAO vs. Sasaki final I don't even remember. I don't really care for Sasaki, but MAO and Higuchi are awesome.
NOAH Limit Break .2 29/5/2024
Owada vs. Sekimoto was cool. Kotoge vs. Akiyama had a good finishing stretch. Main event time limit draw was very hard-hitting between Saito and Shiozaki. Worth for the main event, otherwise closer to any other tour show rather than the first LIMIT BREAK.
!!! Yoji Anjo vs. Masakatsu Funaki (UWF Newborn 6-14-89) !!!
Great shoot-style match that has a lot of heat and mixes up strikes and technical wrestling. Very impressive, very worthy of a rewatch. ~23m
Marigold Grand Opening Wars 2024 26/5/2024
Noon was slightly above average tour show. Bojira appearance was awesome in a triangle match with Hayashishita and Victoria Yuzuki. I watched most of the night show from the DIGEST in their youtube channel. I watched semi-main and main event in full and they were both pretty cool and heated. Bojira was awesome as always in the semi main tag and all Hayashishita Yuzuki and Kouki were good in the main.


Hayashishita ends the show with a sick deadlift german on Yuzuki!

SENDAI Girls Pro-Wrestling in Shinjuku FACE 9/6/2024
Watching a Wrestle Universe event live in full for the first time, missed the first match. Comedy 2nd match was pretty funny. 3 v 3 was good and heated (Chisako vs. Iwata coming up?). Team 200kg semi-main was absolutely amazing, Hashimoto especially pulled off some extremely impressive moves. Worth a rewatch? Main event tag title bout was heated and not as hard-hitting but was full of drama. Did Oka manage to win her first title...? (the Senjo Junior championship doesn't count)


Unique transitions to a powerful gutwrench suplex! Hashimoto is awesome!

TJPW PRISM '24 9/6/2024
Kazashiro has come far in her 1 year of wrestling, Okubo's development was hampered due to her months-long abscence due to exams. They didn't pose a challenge to the tag champs but they were able to throw them off their game and have a competitive match at least. Kamiyu & Aja Kong 6-man tag was entertaining. Arai match was ok. PuriPuri title main was dirty and ugly but in a good way. Some tasty stiff strikes towards the end. Watanabe Miu is having a real cruel bloom as champ.
NOAH Star Navigation 2024 9/6/2024
Kiyomiya & Kenoh vs. Jake Lee & Gabe Kidd main event! Kondo & Eita challenge for the junior tag titles! Owada, Oiwa, Morris vs. Marufuji! ~2h 30m
• Kitamiya & Oiwa 6-man was a gorgeous match. Hard hits but mostly bone-crunching suplexes galore. Everyone was awesome (Titus was only ok). Rewatch? Not as grand but very satisfying.
• Morris vs. Marufuji was pretty cool, it got quite heated by the end but they've got more to give. Morris' star is starting to shine, he's becoming better and better every show...
• Junior tag title bout was mostly meh but built up to and awesome end.
• Didn't care for the hardcore nature of this match. I liked Gabe Kidd's fire in his opening promo, but then he started wrestling like a hooligan... I'd like to see him in a few years after he's matured and learned sportsmanship. He looks awesome, though. Didn't care for the double count out finish either.
NOAH GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA 16/6/2024
• Kitamiya Inaba vs. Alexander Taniguchi was pretty fun and hard- hitting. Titus Alexander bust out some pretty impressive moves!
• Junior 6-man was cool, Eita is always awesome and AMAKUSA was spinning and twisting and turning all the time which was fun (first time seeing him).
• People didn't care too much about the Oiwa HAYATA v Sasaki Ogawa match either, but I cared! Sasaki and Oiwa are awesome! Sasaki is becoming quite deadly... All those tag matches with Sugiura payed off...
• Daga v Starboy pretty cool junior match! Charlie is so dreamy.... Easy defence for Daga.
• "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." Tag title match was solid with a great finish.
• Gabe Kidd got all the crowd brawling out the way in the beginning and a hard-hitting main event was left. Fav part was when he suplexed G-man! It was a pretty good main event, but not particularly special. But that challenge??? OHHHH!!!!
This was overall good but not especially breathtaking. Nice undercard! Kitamiya Inaba vs. Alexaner Taniguchi and Oiwa/Sasaki tag matches were great! Main event is worth it but not special. Cool show. Pretty exciting to see all the new blood clawing away at the established wrestlers.